FH Designs is an Australian-based development consultancy with expertise in the management, design, monitoring and evaluation of international development programs.
We have expertise in gender equality and social inclusion (GEDSI), locally-led development, climate change and resilience, humanitarian assistance, as well as technical expertise in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), water resources, capacity development, infrastructure and energy. Our clients over the last decade have included DFAT, DFID, UN agencies, the World Bank and international NGOs, and have conducted more than 50 significant evaluations and reviews.
Typically, FH Designs’ consultants began their careers as development practitioners, working and living in developing countries .....
FH Designs has extensive experience monitoring, reviewing and evaluating development programs and investments, across Africa, Asia.....
FH Designs provides technical support to development programs in a range of ways. Our specialists cover a variety of thematic area.....
FH Designs’ consultants have progressed gender and social inclusion outcomes within programs within programs focusing on economic development, rural livelihoods, governance, leadership, safety and security, peace-building, women’s empowerment and ICT.
FH Designs’ humanitarian specialists have more than 20 years of experience working in the Australian and international humanitarian sectors.
They have in-depth knowledge of monitoring and evaluation in relation to humanitarian response and disaster risk reduction (DRR).
The two directors of FH Designs are both engineers with a background and interest in infrastructure. Whilst we have specialised in WASH, our interest in infrastructure has not diminished.
FH Designs is best known for our WASH expertise.
Our team have experience in all aspects of design, management, monitoring and implementation of WASH projects and programmes in Timor-Leste and in other countries in the Pacific, Asia and Africa.
FH Designs plays an important role in Water for Women, the Australian Government’s flagship WASH program that is being delivered as part of Australia's aid program, investing AUD110.6 million from 2018 to 2025. Overall implement.....
Plan Netherlands is one of three consortium partners that implemented the Dutch funded €59 million WASH SDG Programme (2017-2023). Plan implemented programs in Indonesia, Nepal, Uganda, Ethiopia and Zambia and engaged FH Designs.....
In conjunction with our consortium partners Griffin and Aid-IT, FH Designs was engaged to manage the design the PNG-Australia Climate Partnership Program, in collaboration with the Governments of Australia and PNG....
FH Designs was contracted by the World Bank to undertake a study to examine the key factors affecting the sustainability of rural WASH investments. In a country with limited data on WASH sustainability, the study has proved to be .....
DFAT’s CS WASH Fund was an A$103 million global program (2013 – 2018) that supported 13 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to implement 29 WASH projects in 19 countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific. It was designed to e.....
In 2012 Plan contracted FH Designs to conduct a study into the main factors affecting the sustainability of ODF status of households in villages triggered and certified ODF 2 or more years previously. Three research questions were.....
FH Designs was engaged by DFAT in 2024 to conduct the mid-term review of the South-Asia Water and Sanitation Initiative (SAWASI) program, being implemented in India, Pakistan and Nepal....
